Last updated on Jul 1, 2024

Awards and Nominations

2024: Faculty of Math and Sciences Teaching Award, Brock University, $2,500. [Details]
2021: Oral Presentation at ACL 2021. [Video]
2020: Oral Presentation at Coling 2020
2019: Oral Presentation at EMNLP 2019
2018: Best Paper Award–NAACL SRW 2018. [Details]
2017: The Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies (FRQNT) - PhD Scholarship, $63,000 [Declined]
2015: McGill University Graduate Excellence Award, $4,000
2013: William Dawson Undergraduate Excellence Award, $2,000

Funding

2023: New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration Grant, $200,000. [Details]
2022:

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Discovery Launch Supplement, $12,500. [Details]
  • NSERC’s Discovery Grant, $125,000. [Details]

2017: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - PhD Program, $63,000

2015 - 2017:

  • NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program, $17,500 (each year)
  • Fonds de Recherche Santé Quebec (FRSQ) Master’s Scholarship, $15,000 (each year)
Ali Emami
Ali Emami
Assistant Professor

Ali Emami is an assistant professor of computer science at Brock Uniersity. His research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He leads the Natural Language Processing group, which develops natural language understanding and generation systems that are generalizable, interpretable, and fair.